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Histories
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Traditionally known as the Father of History, the Greek writer Herodotus (c. 484-420 BC), was the first man to tell a story in prose on the scale of the ILIAD & the ODYSSEY. His subject is the war between the Persians & the Greeks but, in order to explain how this war came about, he also describes the rise of the Persian empire & analyses the causes of its conflict with neighbouring states. Despite its remoteness from our own time, this is a fascinating story, told by a great writer. Herodotus has a powerful narrative style & penetrating eye for character. The great men of the age are vividly described & extraordinary details of customs, places & even the weather are sketched in. Herodotus is not merely an historian; he is also a political commentator, a geographer, an anthropologist & a philosopher. Yet events are described swiftly in simple sentences & drama is rarely far away. The continuing relevance of the HISTORIES to our time has been vividly highlighted by the extensive allusions to the book in Michael Ondaatje's novel THE ENGLISH PATIENT. The film of THE ENGLISH PATIENT in which the role of Herodotus' HISTORIES is even more pronounced opens in Britain in March 1997 after colossal success in the US. ...
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Histories Volume 1
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The Everyman Complete Shakespeare will publish the History plays in two volumes. In volume I are contained Shakespeare's first five history plays: HENRY VI parts I, II & II; RICHARD III & KING JOHN. The text of the plays is accompainied by extensive notes, author chronology, bibliography & a detailed introduction to each play & to Shakespeare's history plays in general by Tony Tanner. ...
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Histories Volume 2
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The Everyman Signet Shakespeare series continues with the second volume of Histories, containing HENRY IV, parts I & II, HENRY V & HENRY VIII. As before, there is an extended introduction by Tony Tanner, a bibliography & author chronology. The plays are lightly annotated & the text is therefore ideal for both students & general readers. ...
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History Of Britain
(Vol 2): The British
Wars 1603-1776
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' Great Britain? What was that?' asks Simon Schama at the start of this, the second book of his epic three-volume journey into Britain's past. This volume, The British Wars, is a compelling chronicle of the changes that transformed every strand & stratum of British life, faith & thought from 1603 to 1776. Travelling up & down the country & across three continents, Schama explores the forces that tore Britain apart during two centuries of dynamic change
- transforming outlooks, allegiances & boundaries.

From the beginning of the British wars in July 1637, for 200 years battles raged on
- both at home & abroad, on sea & on l&, up & down the length of burgeoning Britain, across Europe, America & India. Most would be wars of faith
- waged on wide-ranging grounds of political or religious conviction. But as wars of religious passions gave way to campaigns for profit, the British people did come together in the imperial enterprise of ' Britannia Incorporated'.

The story of that great alteration is a story of revolution & reaction, inspiration & disenchantment, of progress & catastrophe, & Schama's evocative narrative brings it vividly to life.






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History Of Britain
(Vol 3): The Fate Of
The Empire: 1776-2000
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' While Britain was losing an empire, it was finding itself...' The compelling opening words to this volume, The Fate of the ...
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History Of My Life
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The name of Giacomo Casanova, Chevalier de Seingalt (1725-1798), in now synonymous with amorous exploits, & there are plenty of these, vividly narrated, in him memoirs. But Casanova was not just an energetic lover. In his time he was diplomat, business man, trainee priest, traveller, prisoner, magician, confidence trickster, gambler, professional entertainer & chalatan. He financed business projects, organised lotteries, wrote opera libretti & dabbled in high politics. Above all he was an autobiographer of enduring brilliance & subtlety who left behind him what is probably the most remarkable confession ever written. Casanova was a Venetian who explored to the full all the possibilities 18th century Venice offered by way of love & profit before being imprisoned, escaping from gaol, & fleeing from the city to begin travels which took him across Europe. In Moscow & London, Berlin & Constantinople, he met the famous men & women of the time
- Catherine the Great, Voltaire, Louis XV, Rousseau
- & recorded his encounters for the memoirs he wrote in retirement at the end of his life. These memoirs are by turns subtle, touching, thrilling, wonderfully comic & quite irresistible. Although the present edition

Includes:: one third of Casanova's enormous (though unfinished) book, it contains all his major adventures & all is greatest affairs of the heart. ' Casanova is unsurpassed as the recreator of the daily talking interests of 18th century Europe. he ranges from slut to patrician, from closet to cabinet, waterfront to palace.'
- V S PRITCHETT




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Hit List
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When Robert Maxwell is assassinated at sea by an unknown agency, it can only be a matter of time before the dark secret at the heart of the British Establishment is exposed to the light of day.

SAS soldier Neil Slater has left the Army but soon it seems he is to be drawn back into the covert world. Bowing to the inevitable h allows himself to be recruited by the Cadre, a group that applies 'the rules of war' to those who threaten the internal & external security of the State. Slater soon finds himself in a rising body count situation & asking the question: who is the real enemy?

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Hit List
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When Robert Maxwell is assassinated at sea by an unknown agency, it can only be a matter of time before the dark secret at the heart of the British Establishment is exposed to the light of day.

SAS soldier Neil Slater has left the Army but soon it seems he is to be drawn back into the covert world. Bowing to the inevitable h allows himself to be recruited by the Cadre, a group that applies 'the rules of war' to those who threaten the internal & external security of the State. Slater soon finds himself in a rising body count situation & asking the question: who is the real enemy?

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Hitler's Bastard:
Through Hell And Back
In Nazi Germany
And Stalin's Russia
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Of all the extraordinary individual accounts that have come out of the Second World War & its aftermath, few can compare with that of Eric Pleasants, a member of the 'bastard' British wing of Hitler's SS. In this book
- the first ever autobiography from within the British Free Corps
- Pleasants writes of the bizarre & traumatic years he spent in the regimes of the twentieth century's most notorious dictators.A life-long pacifist, Pleasants was forced to kill in order to survive. From a vagabond life alongside infamous Triple Cross agent Eddie Chapman on occupied Jersey, Pleasants was taken by the Nazis to a series of prison camps in France. The years that followed held a whirlwind of unexpected turns; he lived a life on the run in occupied Paris, was captured & recruited into the British Free Corps of the Waffen-SS, found love with a young german woman, witnessed the bombing of Dresden & attempted to hide from Soviet troops along the sewers of Berlin. When the war ended, Pleasants found himself on the Communist side of the Iron Curtain. By now a strong man in a travelling circus, he was arrested by the KGB on charges of espionage & sentenced to 25 years slave labour in the notorious camps of Artic Russia. Only with Stalin's death in 1953 was Pleasants finally released from his unique kind of purgatory, after nearly half a lifetime of peripatetic nightmare. Pleasants died in 1998 at the age of 87. HITLER'S BASTARD remains a remarkable monument to his imperishable will to survive.

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History Of Britain (Vol 3): The Fate Of The Empire: 1776-2000

'While Britain was losing an empire, it was finding itself...' The compelling opening words to this volume, The Fate of the Empire, set the tone and agenda for the final stage of Simon Schama's epic voyage around Britain, her people and her
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' While Britain was losing an empire, it was finding itself...' The compelling opening words to this volume, The Fate of the Empire, set the tone & agenda for the final stage of Simon Schama's epic voyage around Britain, her people & her past. Spanning two centuries, crossing the breadth of the empire & covering a vast expanse of topics
- from the birth of feminism to the fate of freedom
- he explores the forces that shaped British culture & character from 1776 to 2000.

The story opens on the eve of a bloody revolution, but not a British one. The French Revolution's spirit of fiery defiance & Romantic idealism sparked off a round of radical revolts & reforms that gathered momentum over the coming century
- from the Irish Rebellion to the Chartist Petition. How could the world's first industrial society come through its growing pains without falling apart in social & political conflict? Would the machine age destroy or strengthen the institutions that held Britain together? & if the British Empire helped to make Britain stable & rich, did it live up to its promise to help the ruled as well as the rulers? Amidst the military & economic shocks & traumas of the 20th century, & through the voices of Churchill, Orwell & H. G. Wells, The Fate of the Empire asks the question that is still with us
- is the immense weight of our history a blessing or a curse, a gift or a millstone around the neck of our future?

It is a vast, compelling epic, made more so by the lively storytelling & big, bold characters at the heart of the action. Schama also exposes the grand illusions that cost untold lives when India's viceroys let millions of starving Indians die. Why? What went wrong with the liberal dream? The answers emerge in The Fate of Empire, which reveals the living ideals of Britain's long history, 'a history that tied together social justice with bloody-minded liberty'.

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